{"id":1000002,"date":"2006-04-29T20:57:49","date_gmt":"2006-04-30T01:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2006\/04\/29\/indigo-bunting\/"},"modified":"2008-09-01T13:54:08","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T18:54:08","slug":"indigo-bunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2006\/04\/29\/indigo-bunting\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigo Bunting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday afternoon I hopped over to Jamaica Bay to look for the <a href=\"http:\/\/citybirder.blogspot.com\/2006\/04\/jamaica-bay-wildlife-refuge-early-this.html\">White-faced Ibis Sean Sime and Rob Jett found on Thursday<\/a>. I didn&#8217;t locate it, nor did a couple of other birders who were out looking. (I did hear that it was relocated this morning, exactly where it was on Thursday. Maybe it&#8217;s just a morning bird.) However I did get some wonderful closeup looks at my first Indigo Bunting this year:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1000004\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/bunting.JPG\" alt=\"Indigo Bunting\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nAlso of note were the first Canada goslings of the season:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1000005\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/goslings.JPG\" alt=\"Two Canada Geese with four goslings crossing the path\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the other hand it was a bad day for W birds: not a single woodpecker and only one unidentified warbler. I did, however, see quite a few Willets.  <\/p>\n<p>Total species count for the day was 49:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Double-crested Cormorant<\/li>\n<li>Great Egret<\/li>\n<li>Snowy Egret<\/li>\n<li>Little Blue Heron<\/li>\n<li>Tricolored Heron<\/li>\n<li>Glossy Ibis<\/li>\n<li>Canada Goose<\/li>\n<li>Brant<\/li>\n<li>Mute Swan<\/li>\n<li>Gadwall<\/li>\n<li>American Black Duck<\/li>\n<li>Northern Shoveler<\/li>\n<li>Green-winged Teal<\/li>\n<li>Greater Scaup (1 M, East Pond)<\/li>\n<li>Red-breasted Merganser (West Pond)<\/li>\n<li>Ruddy Duck<\/li>\n<li>Osprey<\/li>\n<li>American Coot<\/li>\n<li>Killdeer (1, West Pond)<\/li>\n<li>American Oystercatcher<\/li>\n<li>Willet<\/li>\n<li>Laughing Gull<\/li>\n<li>Ring-billed Gull<\/li>\n<li>Herring Gull<\/li>\n<li>Great Black-backed Gull<\/li>\n<li>Forster&#8217;s Tern<\/li>\n<li>Mourning Dove<\/li>\n<li>American Crow<\/li>\n<li>Fish Crow<\/li>\n<li>Tree Swallow<\/li>\n<li>Barn Swallow<\/li>\n<li>Black-capped Chickadee<\/li>\n<li>Carolina Wren<\/li>\n<li>American Robin<\/li>\n<li>Gray Catbird<\/li>\n<li>Northern Mockingbird<\/li>\n<li>Brown Thrasher<\/li>\n<li>European Starling<\/li>\n<li>Eastern Towhee<\/li>\n<li>Savannah Sparrow<\/li>\n<li>Song Sparrow<\/li>\n<li>White-throated Sparrow<\/li>\n<li>Northern Cardinal<\/li>\n<li>Indigo Bunting<\/li>\n<li>Red-winged Blackbird<\/li>\n<li>Common Grackle<\/li>\n<li>House Finch<\/li>\n<li>American Goldfinch<\/li>\n<li>House Sparrow<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday afternoon I hopped over to Jamaica Bay to look for the White-faced Ibis Sean Sime and Rob Jett found on Thursday. I didn&#8217;t locate it, nor did a couple of other birders who were out looking. (I did hear that it was relocated this morning, exactly where it was on Thursday. Maybe it&#8217;s just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1000002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}